Hat-box.



L. COHEN.

HAT BOX.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 2, I915.

1,21 8,628. Patented Mar. 13, 1917. 2 $HEET$-SHEET I- 151 1. 277/9, 3.

L. COHEN.

HAT BOX.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. ms.

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LEON COHEN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

HAT-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed September 2, 1915. Serial No. 48,716. V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON COHEN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements/in Hat-Boxes, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in hat boxes, especially designed to facilitate the handling of hats in stock and wherein one side or wall of the box is removable and the adjacent margins reinforced.

The object of my invention is to construct a box of simple and inexpensive construction which will completely inclose hats for packing and shipping and which has a removable front wall and reinforced body, to the end that hats in stock may be readily accessible from boxes stacked one above the other.

With the above object in view, my invention relates to certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be fully described, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows in perspective one of my hat boxes in a closed condition;

Fig. 2 shows in perspective a number of my improved boxes, with their fronts removed and in stack formation;

Fig. 3 shows in perspective one of my boxes with the lid and front separated from the body;

Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation, taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a sectional plan taken on the line 55 of Fig. 1; and I Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail sectional elevation taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings,

7 designates the back or rear wall of the box, and 8 and 9 the side walls thereof. By preference these three walls are constructed of a single piece of material. Integral with each of the walls, the rear and the two side walls, at their lowermost margins, are the inturned flanges 10 and secured to these flanges is the bottom piece 11.

The numeral 12 designates a rectangular open frame, which is secured to the forward margins of the side walls 8 and 9 throughout their heights, and to the box bottom only at points adjacent the side walls,

whereby the major length of the lower rail of the frame is free from the box bottom.

By preference the flanges 10 of the-rear and side walls are secured to the bottom by glue and the frame issecured to the side walls and box bottom by tacks. I

The front wall 13 is constructed of a single piece of material and carries at its side margins the flanges 11, of the same length as the front wall and at its lowermost margin the flange 15 which terminates at each end, short of the width of the front wall.

The top or lid 16 of the box is constructed of a single piece of material and carries at its margin the downturne'd flanges 17.

The front wall is placed with relation to the box proper by inserting its flange 15 between the lower rail of the frame 12 and the box bottom, and then swinging it on the flange 15 to bring its upper margin to lie against'the upper end of the frame and its side flanges 1 1 overlapping the forward margins of the side walls 8 and 9. The lid or top 16 is then fitted over the box with its one downturned flange 17 overlapping the front margin of the front wall 13 to hold the front wall in closed position.

The lid serves to hold the upper ends of the flanges 14L of the front wall to the side walls of the box, and I employ the adhesive strips 18 to secure the lower ends of the flanges 141 to the box body, which strips also serve to'seal the box. The lid and front are held in place during transit in a common manner, as by a string 19.

By the construction of the box as described it will be obvious that while the box is made up of relatively light weight material, the boxes may be stacked. one above the other, with their front walls entirely removed, to the end that articles contained in the boxes may be readily accessible.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor is:

1 A box body having an open side and open top, a reinforcing frame secured in the box body at its open side, a removable side wall, flanges carried by the removable side wall to overlap the box body, and a removable lid overlapping certain of the flanges of the removable side wall.

2. In combination with a box having an open side and an open top, an open frame secured in the box adjacent the margins of the open side, a removable side wall, having a flange removably positioned between said frame and the box body, at the bottom of the box and a lid having flanges to overlap the said removable Wall at the top of the box.

3'. In combination with a box body, having an open side and an open end, an open frame secured in the box at its open side, one Wall of the box being free from said frame, a removable side having a flap arranged to be inserted between the said frame and the Wall and Which is free therefrom, and a removable lid, having a flange arranged to overlie said removable side.

In testimony Whe'reof I have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LEON COHEN.

lVitnesses t E. L. WALLACE, EDWARD E. LONGAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

